The US authorities announced the inclusion in the sanctions list of 27 Russian citizens and six companies that serve in intelligence units and the Ministry of Defense or act in their interests . This was stated in a statement by US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert. The US authorities explain this decision by implementing the CAATSA (Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions) law, which was adopted in 2017.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested for two months the nephew of the former owner of the Cherkizovsky market Telman Ismailov, Zaur Mardanov, who is accused of kidnapping singer Abraham Russo in 2004. Court press secretary Yuno Tsareva reported this to Mediazona. Mardanov will remain in custody until November 17. A case has been opened against him under Part 2 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code (kidnapping committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).

The Leninsky District Court in Cheboksary, following a complaint from the prosecutor’s office, overturned the decision to terminate the administrative case of Open Russia activist Yuri Sidorov, he himself told OVD-Info. against the activist A report was drawn up under Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code (carrying out the activities of an “undesirable organization”) after he presented a bouquet of yellow tulips to the speaker of the region’s State Council, Valery Filimonov.

The Qualification Board of Judges of Karachay-Cherkessia agreed to initiate a criminal case under Part 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code (violation of traffic rules resulting in the death of two people) against the magistrate of the judicial district No. 1 of the Urupsky judicial district, Maxim Yakush. Lawyer Andrei Sabinin, who represents the interests of the deceased Vladislav Gladsky on the initiative of the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona about this.

An editor in the publishing department of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov, Andrei Mikryukov , told Moskovsky Komsomolets that he was accused of stealing three fur coats from a shopping center on Presnenskaya Embankment. Apparently, we are talking about the Afimall City shopping center. The fur coats were stolen on May 5, when Mikryukov, according to him, was in Belarus.

The prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow refused to approve the indictment in the case of political strategist Pyotr Miloserdov, accused of creating an extremist community together with nationalist Alexander Potkin. Lawyer Matvey Tseng reported this to Mediazona. Zeng recalled that Miloserdov’s arrest period was urgently extended on the night of August 23, and it expires on Monday, September 24.

In St. Petersburg, the magistrate of court district No. 4 fined Zaks.ru correspondent Sergei Eremeev, who was kicked out of the Oktyabrsky District Court in June, 500 rubles, according to the publication’s website. Then the journalist came to a meeting on the administrative case of the head of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Denis Mikhailov. The meeting took place on June 29. Before it started, at 16:45, the bailiffs told listeners and journalists that the court was closing.

The Kalininsky District Court of the city of Cheboksary fined 50 thousand to the former head of the departmental hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who released a prisoner with a head injury, according to the website of the Department of the Investigative Committee for the Chuvash Republic. The doctor was found guilty of negligence (Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code). The defendant admitted guilt. In the summer of 2017, the head of medical unit No.

Journalist Maxim Novikov wrote on Facebook that two men tried to beat him in the courtyard of his house in the center of Tver. As notes , the attack occurred on September 19 at 21:00 in Trudolyubiya Lane. Other Tver Two men of “athletic build” hit Novikov on the head as he was leaving the entrance. They then sprayed pepper spray in his face. “With the help of two targeted shots from the Osa pistol, I cooled their desire to inflict bodily harm of varying degrees of severity on me!

The State Duma, in the third final reading, adopted a bill that introduces criminal liability for refusal to delete or refute information found by the court to be unreliable, according to the website of the lower house of parliament.

Peter Verzilov. Photo: Anton Carliner / Mediazone After transporting from Moscow to Berlin, the state of Peter Verzilov improved. The doctors of the German clinic "Shary" say that Peter was most likely poisoned.

In St. Petersburg, the magistrate of court district No. 199 granted the request of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the prosecutor’s office and allowed to interrogate an employee of Center “E” under conditions that “excluded his visual observation,” lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov wrote on Facebook. We are talking about a court hearing in the case of activist Dina Garina, accused of insulting two employees of Center “E” (Article 319 of the Criminal Code).

The Lgovsky District Court of the Kursk Region decided to release Dmitry Krepkin, a defendant in the “March 26” case, recalculating the sentence according to the law as “a day and a half.” Roman Lyzlov, lawyer for the international human rights group Agora, told Mediazona about this. Krepkin will be released after the decision comes into force.

The Moscow State Gallery on Solyanka has canceled the exhibition of artist Katrin Nenasheva “Cargo 300. Collages of Experiences” dedicated to torture. This is reported on the gallery's website. “It is with great disappointment that we are forced to announce that, unfortunately, in the current social situation, the exhibition of our planned exhibition “Cargo 300. Collages of Experiences” is impossible due to circumstances beyond Solyanka’s control,” the statement says.

In Krasnodar, the Investigative Committee dropped the criminal case of the kidnapping of businessman Aram Gambaryan, who was tortured by FSB officers, reports . the Committee Against Torture Gambaryan turned to human rights activists for help in May 2017. The businessman said that on March 21, his car was blocked by a minibus, from which armed masked people ran out, shouting “the FSB is working,” they dragged the businessman into their car and, beating him, brought him to the forest.